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Note on place-names and names which reads 'Creag Rusgain on Fearnach farm Clann Rusgain. Goirtean Chonasglaidh Goirtean Conaisg part of Bail-an-deor. The O in Conaisg is open like o in wol. An Rusgan MacPhail = Ruskin Macphail' [Creag Ruisgte, Fearnoch, Baile an Deòra/Balindore, Gorstain, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Notebook marked, 'Notes probably class lectures, chiefly linguistic, by Professor Mackinnon. The book was written by the Rev Charles Robertson when he was a student.

Scope and Contents Mackinnon appears to have written some notes, perhaps in preparation to publish a textbook that he had possibly expected to title 'Celtic Philology'. This is the first part, which he has titled 'Phonology'. Despite this title, much of the notebook's contents are descriptions, as they were understood at the time, of the classification of Celtic languages as a branch of Indo-European, how they are related to other languages, and a detailed account of the linguistic typology of Celtic...

Scope and Contents Mackinnon appears to have written some notes, perhaps in preparation to publish a textbook that he had possibly expected to title 'Celtic Philology'. This is the second part in the collection, but Mackinnon has labelled it (in error?) as the first part, which he has titled 'Sounds'. The notebook's contents have a lot of information about the latest linguistic theory at this time, as well as attempts to describe defunct Celtic languages, such as Gaulish, as much as extant Celtic languages at...

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Mackinnon appears to have written some notes, perhaps in preparation to publish a textbook that he had possibly expected to title 'Celtic Philology'. This is the second part, which he has titled 'Morphology'. Although part of a series on 'Celtic' linguistics, much of the notebook's contents appear to focus on the morphology of Scottish Gaelic, and includes nominal and verbal morphology.

Scope and Contents Most of the notebook's pages are empty. This notebook contains the published article, 'On the Dialects of Scottish Gaelic', written by Donald Mackinnon for the Highland Society of Inverness (1890-1899?). Each page of the published article has been removed from its original source and pasted onto pages of this notebook. Alongside the inserted pages of the article, there are notes and annotations, presumably by Mackinnon himself. In the rest of the notebook, where there are no inserted pages...

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In the front, an article published by Donald Mackinnon in the 'Celtic Magazine', December 1886, on the topic of 'loanwords in Gaelic' has been removed from its original source and has been glued into this notebook. Towards the back of the notebook, there are word lists that appear to be notes in preparation for a dictionary of loanwords in Gaelic. Many pages in the notebook, however, is empty.

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These are notebooks containing lecture notes on the following subjects:

(a) Gaelic grammar

(b) Gaelic names: The form of names

(c) Gaelic names: Phonetic changes

(d) Grimm's Law

(e) Gaelic grammar: The declension of nouns

(f) Gaelic grammar: The declension of adjectives

(g) Pronouns

(h) Phonetics

(i) Eclipsis

(j) The noun: Gender, number and case

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Notes written by William J. Watson including, notes on Bergin's edition of 'Stories from Keating', notes on the 'Death of Cu Roi' and notes on the relative particle a n- in Gaelic. Also an examination paper on Keating.

Scope and Contents Notebook containing notes on Gaelic Grammar and Vocabulary. It is likely that these are class notes produced by the Rev Charles Robertson from Donald Mackinnon's lectures in the Celtic Department at Edinburgh University. This is possibly not the original notebook but a copy of Robertson's work. The notebook includes, notes on 'The Celt in English Art' taken from an article by Grant Allen in the Fortnightly Review February, 1891, pp267. Also notes on Old...